(If you are not aware, the curriculum
used in public schools now consists of the standards and assessments – tests -
mandated by the state. Teachers are not allowed to teach anything else.
Teachers' lesson plan books are monitored and their classes observed to make
sure they are teaching exactly what they are told to teach and what to
test and when to test – just as communist countries do it.) See the attached superintendent memo on lesson plans to
prove this last statement.

Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported that Arkansas Education
Commissioner Ken James testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’
Committee on Education and Labor on the need of national common academic
standards for K-12. 1

How many of you remember the national history standards
presented in 1994? They were so biased and leftist in nature that they were
rejected by 99 US Senators. In our social and political climate of today, how
could anyone think that national standards would be anything but leftist?

But it gets worse. The paper reported only part of the
truth. They did not report that "The purpose of the hearing was to examine
how states can better prepare their students to compete in a global economy by
using internationally benchmarked common standards."2
Either the paper or Ken James evidently considered international
standards a little beyond the digestive level of Arkansans so that information
was left out of the newspaper article.

Neither did the paper mention the fact that
Obama's DHS Director Janet Napolitano was chair
of the International Benchmarking Advisory Group overseeing the national and
international standards (curriculum) which Arkansas Education Commissioner Ken
James advocated in his testimony and can't wait to implement in Arkansas.3
See the two quoted paragraphs below for details. (By the way the
curriculum is already written so it doesn't matter that Janet Napolitano is
working for Obama now. And people just like her will continue in her steps.)

(Remember
Napolitano - She is the one responsible for therecently
released assessment from the DHS warning law
enforcement officials about a rise in so-called right-wing extremist activity,
labeling returning veterans, and other citizens opposed to abortion, firearms
restrictions, homosexuality, and spending that's out of control and associating
them with white supremacists and violent antigovernment groups. – And she was
chairman of the committee writing our school curriculum!)
4

WASHINGTON – September 8, 2008 – Three of the nation's leading education policy
organizations today united to ensure American students in every state are
receiving a world-class education. The National Governors Association (NGA),
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and Achieve, Inc. have joined to
provide to states a roadmap for benchmarking their K-12 education systems to
those of top-performing nations.

The organizations' work will be guided by an International Benchmarking
Advisory Group consisting of education experts representing
education institutions, the business community, researchers, former federal
officials and current state and local officials (a complete list appears below).
The Advisory Group's expertise
and experience will help the partner organizations identify the need for
international comparisons as well as provide guidance for benchmarking state
education system practices in areas such as standards, accountability, educator
workforce and assessments. The Advisory
Group is co-chaired by Arizona
Gov. Janet Napolitano,
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and Craig
Barrett, chair of the board at Intel Corporation. 5

Imagine the likes of Obama and
Napolitano writing our school curriculum! Some of us have warned people for
years that this would be the result of the government taking over education
through testing and so called standards. We have been surprised that people
have allowed all this without an outcry, without even a whimper. In fact, even
most conservative legislators and governors supported it.

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